2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders Sets The Record Straight: My Supporters Are ‘Not Anti-Clinton’ [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)There are now two.
But here's something you might actually try to do....read what is being said so you understand instead of reducing it to 'hate' and red team/blue team adolescent politics.
I am not 'anti-Clinton'. I am anti-neoliberalism and Third Way triangulation. I am anti-neocon foreign policy positions. I am anti-corporate ownership of the political process. I am anti-TPP, NAFTA, and global trade treatises that unduly punish the American workers. I am anti-MIC. I am anti-private prisons and its affects on the AA & Hispanic communities. I am anti-drug war and its affects on the sick and the poor and the addicted.
So I am not anit-Clinton, I am am anti-what she votes for and represents.
She would not have had my vote whether Sanders was running or not because I don't vote for the 'lesser of two evils'. I never have, and I never will. I don't vote because of loyalty to a party. I don't vote other than my own conscience.
I am simply fortunate that there is a politician running in 2016 who is honestly the most in line with traditional Democratic and progressive values, positions, and policies like my own.
Being 'anti-Clinton' is to reduce serious political disagreement to a childish & emotional game. Sanders is dead on right. We are for him because of what he represents and who he is.